View the paintings of New Zealand Artist Tanya Paton - rich, colourful canvas's with an Asian/Pacific feel. Portraits, Abstract landscape & figurative works. Paton used her own personal symbology to express her response to lifes journey.

Strongly influenced by, and highly sensitive to the ' aura' of my surroundings, I find my work reflects not only my mood and inner life - but also the physical environment I find myself in. In the last 14 years I have lived in 4 countries - New Zealand, Australia, Fiji and Bali, and I find touches of this blending of cultures, which I call Oceania, present in my work.

I now move between my two studios, one in the beautiful Coromandel in New Zealand and the other in Bali, Indonesia.

In Bali I live a very simplistic life. Being free of most economic, domestic and social responsibilities, I move into a less dense realm of being, this lightness shifts my perception of reality and gives me access to the wordless emotional dimension where I gather visions, urges and inspiration.

About Tanya Paton

Born in New Plymouth, New Zealand.

Tanya has been exhibiting her work in galleries in New Zealand and Australia since 1998.She attended art school full time at Wellington’s T.L.C. Art school, Graduating (Honours) in 2001

Work has been sold to collectors in New Zealand, Australia,USA, Italy, Germany, England, Fiji and Bali.

Since 2005 Tanya has been based in Bali where she does most of her painting.

Working mostly in acrylics her work is rich in colour and texture. Layer upon layer of paint is used achieving a luminous quality.Tanya likes to alternate between styles - her abstract landscapes “contemplations of light and impermanence” and her figurative work “stories from inner space ” And more recently, her portraits. She uses a spontaneous, intuitive approach she allows symbolic imagery to emerge organically on the canvas revealing her inner states of being and emotional response to the current environment.